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Despite Harvard’s eventual 1-0 defeat, Hulse posted a dominant stat line—six innings pitched, no earned runs, four hits, and six strikeouts—that left Walsh encouraged about the status of the rotation...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pitchers Shine in Second Season | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Crimson finished fifth overall in the tournament, falling to Penn State, St. John’s, Notre Dame, and Ohio State. But Harvard was able to defeat conference rival Princeton, which captured the Ivy League crown earlier in the season...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Cut Above | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...politics—as we are witnessing now—by pretending that menacing fanatics are all at one end of the political spectrum.  Nor should occasional use of common metaphors (“hit list,” “targeting” politicians for defeat, etc.) be mistaken as threatening...

Author: By Ernest J. Istook | Title: Stop Playing Politics Over Threats | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...same could likely be said of Dartmouth, a team coming off a tough loss of its own—a 15-3 defeat at the hands of No. 10 Duke, whom Harvard (4-2, 0-1 Ivy) faces next Friday...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tussle With Big Green Looms | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...wake of their health care defeat, Republicans in Washington would be wise to remember one famous definition of insanity as repeating the same behavior again and again but expecting different results. After all, there's hardly a politico in Washington, Republican or Democrat, who thinks Senator Jim Bunning's one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits last month reflected well on the GOP. So why are Senate Republicans doing it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Senate Republicans Want Another Benefits Filibuster? | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

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